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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

At one point, it felt like that my blog's top ten posts changes. Which is most popular and which aren't.

These are the top ten all time best blogs, as of now.

Sex and Comics?

1. Who would Captain America Vote For? An election special. (October 29, 2012) Politics has been a major selling point for the blog, it seems. When I did this blog post in time for the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, I had no idea that it would become so insanely popular. But then again, given the next one on the list, I guess it shouldn't have been too much of a surprise.

2. Sex, DC Comics, and ... wtf? (October 3, 2011) You remember this, right? It seems everyone has read it, probably twice. It was a study of DC Comics and their mistreatment of two of their better female characters. It includes, sex, sex, and more sex. And writing. This is post is over two and a half years old now, and still going strong. I wonder why ....

For that answer, meet me over at #3...

3 Disasters to Marvel At: A Comic Discussion. One of the longest-running posts on this list (Nov 8, 2010), and constantly in the top ten, this was a brief look at the past five to six years of Marvel Comics' history of absolute garbage. Looking at the top three, I need to find a way to make my blog about comic books, sex, and politics.

4. Snarky Theology 4: "Things that go boink in the night." See? Sex sells. I just need to find out how I can sell a book over how it's not sexualized. That should be fun. Anyway, I can credit my friend Jason for this title. I mentioned I wanted the Catholic position on sex. The title was the first thing that leapt to his mind. I guess it worked. This has been constantly popular since March of 2011. Maybe people are stopping by JUST for the well thought-out theological discussion on the sexual nature of the human person.

5. SFCS -- Strong Female Character Syndrome (August 19, 2013). This is the most recent post on the list, and it surprised me. It amounted to a simple rant of mine in which I ripped someone a new one over her idiotic interpretation of women in films. It had some valid points, but used the worst examples EVER.

Libel? How so? As in: "Oh, all of THOSE people are sexist, but WE are as pure as the driven snow".... give me a break.

Again, a blog about politics and sex ... sort of.

Maybe I really should find a way to make this blog about sex, politics and comic books.

8. Black Friday blog: Book shopping. On November 15, 2013, I tried to cash in for friends of mine, mostly because I really liked their books, and because people really needed to buy gifts. Books are always useful ... okay, and because I wanted to easily hock my books on twitter. Is that so wrong? Apparently not, because a LOT of folks have shown up to take a look at this one.

9. Music: the Eye of the Storm: Fenton This is a bit of a surprise. One part Cruxshadows, and one part killer sheep, this has been up since June 23, 2011 -- when I was going a little nutty on posting everything at once.

10. Writing A Pius Man, Part 5: A Love Story? Okay, this one I can't explain. At all. I have no idea why people flock to this one. Is it because it's romance? Is it because it's about writing? Is it because I used to have an amazingly stunning woman on the post? Maybe.

4 comments:

Look at your trackbacks and links. When I was researching so I wouldn't look silly elsewhere, I found 7, 5,2,3, & 4 (in roughly that order) in the chain of links documenting the GHH phenomenon. There's a Catholic blog, maybe Matt Bowman-- who is linked to #8. But I know that #4 is linked by a fairly busy site, maybe Simcha or something... I read a lot of Catholic blogs, and am not best at documenting my browsing trail.

Also, #10 is given love by Google. I found it twice just by searching "A Pius Man". Though #2 and #5 have both been spotted similarly. The crowning irony is, I have not read #1 yet.

So why do I spend so much time searching for your book on google? Well... I had this bookmark, see, and it went belly up a while back, and then I forgot it was a dead link, and turns out I had to give you more google love.

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